Re: [EVGRAY] High Voltage DC Transmission System

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Norm,

In South America the largest electric utilities are building HVDC with
ground carrying half the circuit.

On 12/7/2018 7:28 AM, Norman Wootan [email protected] [EVGRAY] wrote:
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> Ole and Fredric Fletcher, pay attention to the polarity and
> methodology of transmission of the HVDC.  Remember the articles
> regarding the earth ground return problems up in dairy country,
> Wisconsin where cattle were being electrocuted by poor grounding
> systems in rural electric grid.  I can recite a real life problem with
> imposing a potential into the earth on the dealing with ground
> return.  One of our Nursing facilities had three seperate buildings
> that shared a two pipe chilled / hot water system with buried steel 4
> inch lines (supply/ return).   The electrical system was 480VAC
> backbone with delta/wye step down transformers which gave a base
> 208VAC with center tap ground for 120VAC. The facility operated just
> fine for 50 years.  Along came an Electrical Contractor that installed
> a new distribution transformer (100 KVA) during an upgrade to one of
> the out buildings. After operation for several years the buried 4 inch
> steel AC/heating lines developed leaks and sections of the removed
> lines showed electrolyitic (galvanic) errosion.  I discovered that the
> Contractor had installed a delta/delta step-down (100 KVA) transformer
> and grounded one (L-2) of the Secondary terminals to get a neutral
> buss common for 120VAC.  A huge NO,NO cause you had a potential of
> 230V to earth ground.  The difference in ground potential between
> buildings created the galvanic errosion because there was a ground
> return current back to the 480/208VAC backbone in the mains building. 
> This was a huge lesson on the problems encountered with relying on
> earth ground return path.
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> On 12/7/2018 3:58 AM, Norman Wootan [email protected] [EVGRAY] wrote:
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>> https://www.electronicshub.org/high-voltage-dc-transmission-system/
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